This dissertation examines how information structure is represented in the different components of Japanese grammar. Each chapter investigates how topic/comment structure and focus/background structure are manifested in a given component of the grammar; that is, in phonology, syntax, and discourse/semantics. In chapter 2,1 investigate the interaction of syntax and prosody. I introduce the End-based analysis proposed by Selkirk &Tateishi (1988, 91) and propose certain revisions in order to accommodate a broader range of empirical facts than has previously been discussed in the literature. I show that presentational focus and contrastive focus are phonologically distinct and that contrastive focus overrides phonological phrasing. I then demonstrate that the system of focus projection proposed for stress languages such as English and German applies to Japanese. I show that focus projection takes place in the syntactic component, prior to mapping into prosodic structure, from the head of the phrase to its sisters (cf. Rochemont 1996) In chapter 3, I establish the discourse function of wa-marking in Japanese, extending Buring's analysis of sentence topics. I demonstrate that the discourse function of wa-marking parallels that of the L H * contour (B-accent) in English, and claim that wa-marking is equivalent to T-marking in the model of Biiring (1998). As such, wa-marking can be viewed as one of the discourse strategies available in Japanese for ensuring that a given assertion is congruent - that is, appropriate - to the question under discussion. In chapter 4,1 investigate the representation of information structure in syntax. I propose a phrase structure for Japanese based on a universal hierarchy of functional categories. I then divide the syntactic structure of Japanese into two major syntactic domains, which I call the topic domain and the comment domain. I show that both sentence topics and contrastively focused constituents must not be inside IP, which is identified as the comment domain. I further argue that subjects outside IP must be wa-marked unless contrastively focused. I conclude that syntactic structure is discourse-configurationally based. To conclude, I discuss the architecture of the grammar that emerges from the proposal defended in each chapter of this dissertation. / Arts, Faculty of / Linguistics, Department of / Graduate

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The present work is concerned with the influence of English grammar, syntax, idiom and style upon contemporary literary Arabic. Loan-words-which have been arabicized or directly adopted into Arabic have not been included in this study. The work is in two parts. Part I treats the historical background of the influence, the native attempts at resistance or adaptation, a historical survey of the standard Arabic (a definition of this is given later in this chapter), previous studies and observations in this field, and evaluation of the material used, which covers works (books) as well as the press. Biographical notes of the authors used in this work and their association with the patterns and examples quoted in Part II are included here. At the end of Part I there is a Questionnaire answered by three of the authors treated in this mark, namely Najib Mahfuz, Ahmed Zaki, and Jabra Ibrhim Jabri.

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Linguistic description has been described as "the application of a particular linguistic theory to a selected field of linguistic phenomena". The thesis presented here offers a partial application of Axiomatic Functionalism, (partial because its concern is with syntax only), to data collected on the San Martín dialect of Quechua. Proportionate to the whole body of Quechua studies, there has been little produced on the syntax of any Quechua dialect. Most syntactic studies, as do the large majority of phonological and morphological studies, use American methodology, be it based on Bloomfieldian linguistics, or be it based on those of Chomsky. The present methodology stands diametrically opposed to both schools of American linguistics cited above, and as a result introduces a fresh approach to the study of the syntactic aspect of Quechua. With Axiomatic functionalism, a new way of looking at Quechua grammar is presented and thus much of what is accepted "fact" reappraised. For this reason, while the concern of the thesis is with producing a description of syntactic relations in San Martín Quechua under the terms of Axiomatic Functionalism, reference is made to descriptions of other Quechua dialects, most notably where the application of Axiomatic Functionalism produces statements containing certain phenomena which are quite different from statements made on equivalent phenomena in other dialects using a different linguistic theory. Moreover, Axiomatic Fundamentalism is a deductive theory, and so statements regarding the data contained in the description are not statements of "fact", but are hypotheses which may stand as valid hypotheses regarding the data unless they can be refuted. Given that the theoretical base on which the description rests is different from that used in other descriptions of Quechua dialects, and so that the hypotheses made regarding syntactic relations in San Martín Quechua may be tested, Part I of the thesis is given over to the theoretical side of the work: to explaining the relation between theory and description in Chapter I, to giving brief explications of those notions in the theory which have particular relevance for a syntactic description in Chapter II, and in noting some of the limits set to the selection of the data for description in Chapter III./ The axioms and definitions of the theory are given in Appendix A. Part II of the thesis, which is in six chapters, deals with the description proper. Structures which may stand as sentences are established and analysed into their constituent structures, the relations between each constituent being ascertained. Analysis is carried through to the stage where there are no constituents analysable in syntactic terms left.

This study is a very basic handbook of Farsi phonetics and syntax for use by English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors who have had little or no contact with the structure of the Persian language. Emphasis is placed on presenting an inventory of selected phonological and syntactic items which are problems for native Farsi speakers who want to learn English.

M.A. / Emotive language is found is various sectors of grammar, and occurs'for instance in words, affixes, fixed expressions and certain syntactic constructions, and is, indicative of the speaker's emotionally charged attitudes or value judgments in regard to referents, or elements of the speech situation or participants in the speech situation. Certain figures of speech seem to be emotionally charged as well. Emotive language has clear formal or semantic correlates, and important parameters are the meliorative/pejorative scale and that of strengthening/weakening. In Chapter 2, which dealt with the morphological expression of emotion, certain affixes and types of compounds were found to play a part in marking language as emotive. It became clear that the diminutive suffix in particular played a major role, and was employed in expressing emotive aspects such as affection, admiration, ridicule, disdain, contempt, sympathy and mistrust. Compounds functioning as intensive forms or of the bahuvrihi type were moreover found to•be emotively charged. Chapter 3•dealt with the role of syntactic mechanisms in emotive language. While certain parts of speech, such as interjections, emphatic particles, degree words, forms of address and exclamations were found to be particularly prone to emotive expression, rhetorical questions, elliptical constructions and various kinds of repetition were also found to have emotive functions. In Chapter 4 the important part played by lexemes and fixed expressions in emotive language was investigated. Emotive words or expressions were found to contrast with neutral, i.e. purely referential, words or expressions in many cases. Modal adverbs proved to be an important carrier of emotive overtones, while the emotive sphere was seen to be enhanced by loans from languages such as English and Zulu. The role of figurative. language and certain figures of speech in particular in emotive expression, was studied in Chapter 5. The figures of speech which were considered, were metaphor, dehumanisation, hyperbole, comparison, sarcasm, synecdoche and irony. In Chapter '6 certain conclusions were drawn, such as the fact that emotive language may take on various forms and occur in various sectors of grammar and vocabulary. At the same time it is found in a spectrum of registers of Afrikaans, e.g. in novels, short stories, youth literature, magazines and even the language of the Bible.

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of Chinese

by Siu Kwai-peng. / Includes bibliographical references / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

手稿本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / Shou gao ben. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 655-663). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 语音 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 描寫语音 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- 歷史音韻比較 --- p.75 / Chapter 第二章 --- 句子的成份 --- p.115 / Chapter 2.1 --- 主语和謂语　 --- p.117 / Chapter 2.2 --- 宾语 --- p.156 / Chapter 2.3 --- 修饰语 --- p.188 / Chapter 第三章 --- 谓補結構 --- p.213 / Chapter 3.1 --- 結果補语 --- p.216 / Chapter 3.2 --- 狀態補语　 --- p.225 / Chapter 3.3 --- 強化補语　　 --- p.233 / Chapter 3.4 --- 方向補语 --- p.239 / Chapter 3.5 --- 能性補语　 --- p.258 / Chapter 3.6 --- 肯定與否定補语 --- p.267 / Chapter 3.7 --- 重叠式補语 --- p.272 / Chapter 3.8 --- 谓語性補语 --- p.278 / Chapter 3.9 --- 黏附性詞組補语 --- p.290 / Chapter 3.10 --- 謂補結構中的宾语　 --- p.296 / Chapter 第四章 --- 體詞類 --- p.309 / Chapter 4.1 --- 概说 --- p.309 / Chapter 4.2 --- 名词 --- p.314 / Chapter 4.3 --- 專有名称 --- p.322 / Chapter 4.4 --- 地方词 --- p.327 / Chapter 4.5 --- 時间词　 --- p.335 / Chapter 4.6 --- 定词 --- p.341 / Chapter 4.7 --- 位词 --- p.357 / Chapter 4.8 --- 代词 --- p.367 / Chapter 4.9 --- 量词 --- p.383 / Chapter 第五章 --- 谓词類及其他 --- p.391 / Chapter 5.1 --- 谓词 --- p.391 / Chapter 5.2 --- 介词 --- p.473 / Chapter 5.3 --- 副词 --- p.491 / Chapter 5.4 --- 連词 --- p.515 / Chapter 5.5 --- 嘆词 --- p.522 / Chapter 5.6 --- 助词 --- p.527 / Chapter 第六章 --- 外来词 --- p.555 / Chapter 6.1 --- 概说 --- p.555 / Chapter 6.2 --- 外来词的来源 --- p.557 / Chapter 6.3 --- 借用的方式 --- p.563 / Chapter 6.4 --- 语音的对譯　 --- p.571 / Chapter 6.5 --- 词義的變遷　 --- p.598 / Chapter 6.6 --- 文法的適应　 --- p.606 / Chapter 附錄： --- 星加坡閩南話的外來词词彙 --- p.613 / 參攷書及譌文目錄　 --- p.655